• NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
    74·
    16 days ago

    It’s never accidental…

    You click a link in an MS app and it launches Edge regardless of the default browser setting, then plays it off as a “feature”.

    Every. Fucking. Time.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    38·
    16 days ago

    Windows: “Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser.”

    User: “No Thank you Windows, please use app X”

    Windows: “I got you fam, app X for PDFs from now on”

    …later…

    Windows: “Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser.”

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    27·
    16 days ago

    Like all MS products today, it’s actually really good after wasting an hour unchecking all the hidden options that make it unbearable spyware.

      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        14 days ago

        Yep, I accidentally opened a news article when the news panel slid out without my knowledge, then I realised all my tabs, bookmarks, passwords, everything, was imported from chrome to edge. No consent, no nothing, it wasn’t even the first time I opened edge, it was just that this time it involved my data. Safe to say I reported it to the ACCC (Australian competition and consumer commission) and did as much as I could to erase my data from edge and stop edge from opening as easily.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    16 days ago

    Haters gonna hate. But I’ve been using Edge for a year now as my main browser and I prefer it over Google’s browser. Yes, it was built on the Chromium open-source project. But the end result is what I was after. Something that wasn’t just Google’s ‘X.’ Industry competition is very much needed.

    • moody@lemmings.world
      14·
      16 days ago

      Everyone gets to have their preference. What’s not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don’t want it.

      • affiliate@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 days ago

        completely agree. i think a lot of people (myself included) will probably never give edge a fair chance because of how insidious and annoying microsoft has been about trying to get people to use it. i don’t really hate edge as a browser (i’ve never really tried it), but i do hate the feeling of the browser being forced upon me

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      16 days ago

      I did a fresh install of windows 11 and I opened edge the first time only to crash after a second because it couldn’t handle the fact that I wasn’t signed into a Microsoft account.

      It crashed immediately every successive attempt to open it.

      After the 15th try (mostly for my own amusement) I downloaded Firefox from the windows store so that there’d be a functional browser in the VM I had just set up for someone to use to run essentially the last scamware app he still needs for hopefully not much longer (cough intuit cough)

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      6·
      15 days ago

      Vs Chrome? Naw. Everyone’s allowed their opinion, but those who prefer Edge usually haven’t actually used modern Firefox, especially with the right extensions. I never install it without uBlock Origin and Consent-O-Matic…

  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world
    12·
    15 days ago

    Ok I’m only going to say one nice thing about edge, the PDF editing functionality is on par with Adobe and it’s free.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    15 days ago

    I used Edge but stopped once they began adding ads (the only way to disable them are via flags and that doesn’t even disable all)

    Then around this year it began to automatically open after updating so I blocked the executable from running via regedit